Scott McCloud Quotes

I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.

Scott McCloud

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• I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Chance

• Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • School
  • Kids
  • You

• For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Character
  • Season
  • Nervous

• I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Life
  • World
  • Future

• How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?

  

  Halima Aden
  • World
  • Same
  • Everyone

• Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don't seem capable of stopping it.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Country
  • Inside
  • Capable

• A lot of people are angry about the democratic abuses that have been committed by the Spanish government.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • People
  • Government
  • Angry

• In computer circles, any unencrypted data is known as 'cleartext.'

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Computer
  • Data
  • Circles

• If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Positive

• It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Unknown

• Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.

  

  Jackie Gleason
  • Life
  • Power
  • Creativity

• I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Book
  • Friends
  • Right

• In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Food
  • Morning
  • Summer

• I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego being a listener, a man who reads the Gospels and then listens to what others say that our Lord meant. But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Voice
  • Lord
  • Theologian

• The music industry is in such poor shape; it's in a really bad way, and a lot of people in the industry are very depressed.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Music
  • Bad

• When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Band
  • Going
  • Ending

• It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Human

• I think that becoming a parent absolutely changes your entire life and certainly changes your work, and it has changed mine. It just allows you to have access to your emotions, even more than you already did. You're watching this little person grow in front of you, and you realize that you're seeing how precious life is and how quickly it goes. You get to things faster, even emotionally. I'm not as timid about reaching into some areas in myself and bringing that to my work.

  

  Sasha Alexander
  • Thinking
  • Parent
  • Emotion

• As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig latin only they can understand - rendering the term 'mainstream' a hollow joke - while the true mainstream, the other 99.9% of the populace, find enjoyment elsewhere.

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Book
  • Speak
  • Term

• Sometimes you think that you need to be perfect, that you cannot make mistakes ... realize you are a human being - like everyone else capable of reaching great potential but not capable of being perfect.

  

  Susan Polis Schutz
  • Perfect
  • Realize
  • Potential

• What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema... the form.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Cinema
  • Curious

• They say there is no 'free lunch' in life. But there are free books! I still can't believe I can go to my local library and get just abut any book in the world - and I don't have to pay a dime!! It's amazing! The library is truly the greatest invention of our civilization.

  

  Dan Gutman
  • World
  • Believe
  • Book

• I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Potential
  • Comics